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Thousands of Old Wind Turbine Blades Pile Up in West Texas
Texas Monthly ^ | August 24, 2023 | Russell Gold

Posted on 08/29/2023 6:16:56 AM PDT by artichokegrower

Officials in Sweetwater say an out-of-state company has made their town a dump for the seldom-seen trash created by renewable energy.

(Excerpt) Read more at texasmonthly.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: waste; windpower; windturbines
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To: MotorCityBuck

Will make perfect homeless shelters!...................


21 posted on 08/29/2023 6:49:07 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: artichokegrower

I’ve driven thru Sweetwater. These stacks of unrecycleable blades is not what you’ll notice at first. The entire area looks like a giant pinwheel farm. It’s like this near the Caprock as well.


22 posted on 08/29/2023 6:50:50 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a Simple Manner for a Happy Life :o)
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To: artichokegrower

Robert L. Peters has generously given us millions of new illegal aliens who need housing. These blades can be repurposed for that, as long as Uncle Sugar gives out tax incentives to do so. They are better by far than tents and cardboard boxes.


23 posted on 08/29/2023 6:52:31 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Faux News: "We distort, you deride")
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To: artichokegrower

Fiberglass... there’s not much of a recycle option for those things, unless they re-use the good ones on replacement windmills. Bu there’s no profit in that, for the manufacturer.


24 posted on 08/29/2023 6:59:29 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: artichokegrower

Ship them to LA and NY City.


25 posted on 08/29/2023 7:04:02 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: artichokegrower

We should demand that the used blades be recycled. Short of that, let’s dump them offshore to create artificial reefs and aquatic habitat.

Off Cape Cod would be the preferred location.


26 posted on 08/29/2023 7:05:03 AM PDT by sphinx
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To: artichokegrower

Posted already - https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4177932/posts


27 posted on 08/29/2023 7:09:28 AM PDT by RideForever (Damn, another dangling par .....)
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To: artichokegrower

The beauty of clean, green, renewable energy.


28 posted on 08/29/2023 7:21:12 AM PDT by yuleeyahoo (The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one. Hamilton)
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To: artichokegrower

Can you imagine if a tornado hits that place? Should chop / chip them up and use the chips as concrete aggregate.


29 posted on 08/29/2023 7:23:09 AM PDT by taxcontrol (The choice is clear - either live as a slave on your knees or die as a free citizen on your feet.)
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To: PGR88

That’s my thought. That, and the front yard of a certain Delaware mansion...


30 posted on 08/29/2023 7:30:42 AM PDT by ferret_airlift
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To: artichokegrower

“Green” waste products.


31 posted on 08/29/2023 7:51:07 AM PDT by glorgau
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To: Wonder Warthog

Wonder if EPA classified it as toxic waste site....lol


32 posted on 08/29/2023 7:52:08 AM PDT by wardamneagle
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To: 9422WMR
So what I got from the story was if they replaced the blades with new ones then they could “restart” the federal subsidy that pays for the wind farm boondoggle. So it’s a never ending scam to take taxpayer dollars.

Thanks for that detail. I was wondering what would make a turbine blade "old". It's all part of the green scam where the "green" is the money laundering.

33 posted on 08/29/2023 8:01:48 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: artichokegrower

A similar disposal of the wind turbine blades is filling landfills in South Dakota.


34 posted on 08/29/2023 8:01:56 AM PDT by The Great RJ ( )
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To: Spktyr

But at least they have sweet water.


35 posted on 08/29/2023 8:04:02 AM PDT by alternatives?
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To: Red Badger

Maybe they can make tepees out of them housing id getting tight now days.


36 posted on 08/29/2023 8:08:55 AM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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To: Tell It Right

And the blades need not be “timed out” at manufactures recommended replacement date, but replaced to restart the free government money. Blades may have been serviceable and may have lasted a few more years but the hand me outs had stopped. Can’t have that.
If wind energy was a viable option it would not need government subsidies. The free market would make it sustainable.


37 posted on 08/29/2023 8:11:21 AM PDT by 9422WMR
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To: Vaduz

Seems like the could be cut into large sections and glued together to make a really long hamster tube.................


38 posted on 08/29/2023 8:15:25 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: artichokegrower

I think they should just build a series of new towers all along the southern border and have the blades spinning to ground level. They wanna live in the land of the big PX, let them run the gauntlet.


39 posted on 08/29/2023 8:17:45 AM PDT by Gaffer ( )
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To: 9422WMR

For ranchers and farmers that host wind farms I have heard that the only more lucrative source of passive income is ... oil wells. Fortunate is the rancher/farmer that has both.


40 posted on 08/29/2023 8:19:02 AM PDT by ByteMercenary (Cho Bi Dung and KamalHo are not my leaders.)
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